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Optogenetics, a Nobel Prize-winning discovery in Medicine, promises to revolutionize treatments for diseases such as epilepsy and Parkinson's by precisely intervening in brain circuits, although significant obstacles remain before its widespread application in humans. #Optogenetica #PremiulNobel #Neuroscience (translated)

Researchers Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel won the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026 for the discovery of channelrhodopsin in the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, which allows the activation of nerve cells by light, thus advancing the field of optogenetics. #Optogenetică #PremiulNobel #CercetareBiologică (translated)

Nobel Prize winner Karl Deisseroth explains how his revolutionary techniques, optogenetics and Clarity, make brain research possible by stimulating nerve cells with light and making mouse brains transparent, allowing for a better understanding of the complex workings of the brain. #Optogenetica #Hersenen #Nobelprijs (translated)

Repubblica reported that Karl Deisseroth received the news of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine shortly after midnight, awarded to him along with Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, and waited until morning to share it with his five children. The video of the family scene was published by Stanford University in California, where Deisseroth trained and worked as a professor of bioengineering, psychiatry, and behavioral sciences. According to Repubblica, the three scientists laid the foundations of optogenetics, which combines genetics and optics to study cell behavior and control nerve signals with light. Their studies allowed for detailed observation of the brain, even intervening in the activity of single nerve cells in a living organism. The method was used in laboratories around the world to study how emotions and memories are organized. #Nobel #Medicina #Scienza (translated)

The Nobel Prize in Medicine for 2026 was awarded to researchers Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel for their discoveries regarding light-activated ion channels and optogenetics, methods used to uncover the mysteries of the brain. #NobelPrize #medicină #cercetare (translated)

"This technique is a perfect bridge between molecular biology, engineering, and neuroscience, and for the future - he added - interesting applications for vision and the nervous system are opening up." This Nobel laureate defined it as a "triumph of interdisciplinarity," said geneticist Giuseppe Novelli from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. #NobelMedicina #Optogenetica #Neuroscienze (translated)

The Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to Georg Nagel, Peter Hegemann, and Karl Deisseroth for their groundbreaking work in optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control nerve cells, opening new avenues in the study of the brain and the understanding of neurodegenerative diseases. #NobelMedicina #Optogenetica #Neuroscienze (translated)

Karl Deisseroth, a neuroscientist, wondered along with his research group whether it was possible to use that protein to control specific groups of neurons, selecting them from the billions of nerve cells that make up the brain. #NobelMedicina #Optogenetica #Neuroscienze (translated)

The Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel for their innovations in the use of light to control neuronal activity, which is fundamental to understanding how the brain works. #NobelMedicina #Optogenetica #Neuroscienze (translated)

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 has been awarded to Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel, and Karl Deisseroth for their groundbreaking work in optogenetics, which allows for the manipulation and mapping of the activity of nerve cells in the brain. #Nobelprijs #Geneeskunde #Optogenetica (translated)